Field Robotics Group - Team

Field Robotics Group

Director

Katherine A. Skinner

Assistant Professor

Dr. Katherine A. Skinner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Prior to this appointment, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan, and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award.

Email: kskin (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar][CV]

Team Members

Current PhD Students

Pou-Chun (Frank) Kung

PhD Candidate, Robotics

Email: pckung (at) umich (dot) edu

Jingyu Song

PhD Candidate, Robotics

Email: jingyuso (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar] [Website] [LinkedIn]

Anja Sheppard

PhD Candidate, Robotics

Email: anjashep (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar] [Website] [LinkedIn]

Onur Bagoren

PhD Candidate, Robotics

Email: obagoren (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar] [Website] [LinkedIn]

Seth Isaacson

PhD Candidate, Robotics

Email: sethgi (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar][Website][LinkedIn]

Tianxiang Lin

PhD Pre-Candidate, Robotics

Email: tianxian (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar][Website][LinkedIn]

Current MS Students

Sacchin Sundar

MS Student, Robotics

Email: sacchin (at) umich (dot) edu

[LinkedIn] [GitHub]

Cale Colony

MS Student, Robotics; MS Student, Sustainable Systems; DEng Student, Manufacturing

Email: ccolony (at) umich (dot) edu

[LinkedIn] [GitHub]

Yi Liu

MS Student, ECE

Email: yiliuhh (at) umich (dot) edu

Haoyu Ma

MS Student, Robotics

Email: mahaoyu (at) umich (dot) edu

[Google Scholar][Website][LinkedIn]

Abrar Shariff

MS Student, Robotics

Email: sharifff (at) umich (dot) edu

Elias Fandi

MS Student, Robotics

Email: efandi (at) umich (dot) edu

Lara Lim

MS Student, Robotics

Email: laralim (at) umich (dot) edu

Jessica Huang

MS Student, Robotics

Email: huangjes (at) umich (dot) edu

Current Undergraduate Students

Vedanth Kallakuri

UG Student, CS

Email: vkallaku (at) umich (dot) edu

Natasha Sieh

UG Student, Robotics

Email: nsieh (at) umich (dot) edu

David Smith

UG Student, Robotics

Email: smitd (at) umich (dot) edu

[LinkedIn] [GitHub]

Vaibhav Gurunathan

UG Student, Robotics/CS

Email: gvaibhav (at) umich (dot) edu

[LinkedIn] [GitHub]

Ashrith Edukalla

MS Student, Robotics

Email: ashed (at) umich (dot) edu

Alumni

PhD Alumni

Spencer Carmichael (2021-2025): "Leveraging 3D Geometry for Place Recognition and Image Restoration in Visual and Thermal SLAM"

Advaith Sethuraman (2021-2025): "Deep Learning Methods for Autonomous Underwater Survey, Reacquisition, and Close-Range Inspection"

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